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2014-2015 Highlights
1. Conference Presentations
Dr. Michael Chappell
American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association, May 2015: "The Road from Nelson Algren's A Walk on the Wild Side to Hunter S. Thompson's Hell's Angels.
Dr. Heather Levy
International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, July 2014: "'Making Each Other's Hearts Beat Violently': Disembodying Ireland/Embodying England."
Renaissance Society of America, March 2015: "'Friday's Child is Loving and Giving': Hounded by Parodies of Punishment in the Tale of Nastagio degli Onesti."
Women and Great Hunger in Ireland, March 2015: "'A Pair of Shoes for my Father, Sir!': Patterns of Female Resistance in New Lights, Or, Life in Galway: A Tale."
Dr. Ingrid Pruss
International Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed conference, June 2015: "Passers All of Us."
Professor Margaret Sullivan
Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 2015: "The Play within the Play is 'the thing'"
Dr. Cigdem Usekes
Northeast Modern Language Association, May 2015: "August Wilson's Warrior Men"
2. Leadership in Professional Organizations
Dr. Donald Gagnon
Executive board and area chair, Northeast Popular Culture Association. Promoted to upper-level administration, Educational Testing Service/AP Reading
3. Published Works:
Dr. Donald Gagnon
"Some Old and Then Some New Tricks." The Sondheim Review Winter 2014
Dr. Shouhua Qi
The Bronte Sisters in Other Wor(l)ds. Co-editor and contributing author. Palgrave, Fall 2014.
4. Additional Accomplishments and Contributions
Dr. Michael Chappell
Chair, UPBC
Directed three Master's theses
Dr. Donald Gagnon
Guest lecturer, Providence College, October 2014: "The American Musical: A Drama of Democracy"
Guest lecturer, WCSU Library Lecture, October 2014: "Latino Like Me: The History, Challenges, and Politics"
Chair, Department of English
Co-coordinator, American Studies program
Co-chair, Arts and Sciences Nominations and Elections committee
Chaired four panels at Northeast Popular Culture Association conference, October 2014
Host/facilitator, "A Musical Theatre Masterclass with Broadway and Tony Award-winning actress Cady Huffman," WCSU, November 2014 (att. Approx. 100)
Sponsored #BlackLivesMatter/National Poetry Month event, April 2015 (att. Approx. 100)
Sponsored guest lectures by Broadway actors Arbender Robinson, Kyle Scatliffe, and Wallace Smith
Sponsored Dr. Reginald Wilburn from University of New Hampshire for Black History Month presentation "Preaching the Gospel of Black Revolt: Appropriating Milton in Early African American Literature" (att: approx. 80)
Advisor, English Honors Society
Advisor, Queers and Allies
Sponsored and accompanied students to CSU Undergraduate English Conference at CCSU, October 2014
Helped to organize annual Octoberfeast event
Attended university Open House, November 2014
Professor Margaret Sullivan
Directed a Master's thesis
Dr. Cigdem Usekes
Chaired a panel on James Baldwin at Northeast Modern Language Association conference, May 2015
Dr. Heather Levy
Organized student trip to New York City to see A Raisin in the Sun starring Denzel Washington (att: approx. 15)
Organized student trip to see King Lear broadcast at Ridgefield Playhouse (att: approx. 5)
Advisor, English Society
Sponsored Dr. Elizabeth Lambert, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, September 2015 for English faculty lecture series (att: approx. 10)
Helped to organize annual Octoberfeast event
Attended university Open House, November 2014
Advised student facing challenges in her English education program to consider refocusing her studies toward a related career. Student is now enrolled in a Master of Science program in Library Science at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Michael Chappell
Sponsored, chaired panel and accompanied students to CSU Undergraduate English Conference at CCSU, October 2014
Professor Margaret Sullivan
Helped to organize annual Octoberfeast event
Attended university Open House, November 2014
5 Students Attending/Presenting at Conferences/Faculty Mentoring Student Research:
2014 CSU Undergraduate English Conference, October 2014
Panel 7: Femme Fatales: "American Women as Subject and Object"
Moderator: Dr. Margaret Murray
Michele Regiano, "Real Women"
Casey-Rose Kearns, "Untrustworthy Narrators"
Christina Kinsella, "Murderous Governess"
Chelsea Rodriguez, "Hear the Women Roar"
Panel 10: Broken Promises; American Visions and Revisions
Moderator: Dr. Michael Chappell
Sarah Pawson, "The American Deceit"
Marc Aubin, "America's Innocent Inception"
Sean Keenan, "The Color of Death"
Kenny Ward, "The Modern Day Witch Hunt"
Dr. Michael Chappell, Master's thesis advisor for David Phillips on John Milton
Dr. Don Gagnon, Student Independent Study with Sean Keenan on Hip-Hop and the History of Spoken Word Poetry
Dr. Margaret Sullivan, Master's thesis advisor for Kathy Cullen on children's literature
Summer 2014
Dr. Heather Levy is presenting a paper titled "Making Each Different Heart Beat Violently: Disembodying Ireland/Embodying England in Elizabeth Bowen's Shorter Fiction� at the International Association for the Study of Irish Literature conference to be held in Lille, France from July 14-18, 2014.
Spring 2014
Dr. Don Gagnon has served in the following capacities:
--President of Northeast Popular Culture Association (2012-13).
--Area Chair of Northeast Popular Culture Association (2012--ongoing).
--Reader/Grader for Educational Testing Service for advanced placement essays (2011--ongoing).
--Advisor for WCSU's Q&A (Queers and Allies) (2005--ongoing).
--Advisor for WCSU's Sigma Tau
Delta/English Honors Society (2007--ongoing).
Dr. Don Gagnon will
present at Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
(Topic: Oscar Hammerstein), April, 2014
Dr. Don Gagnon will guest lecturer at Yale University (Topic: Cultural Invisibilities), October, 2014.
Fall 2013
Dr. Don Gagnon
a paper titled "Racism in CLYBOURNE PARK" at Northeast Modern
Language Association, March, 2013.
Dr. Don Gagnon guest lectured at University of New Hampshire, November, 2013 (Topic: The Colored Museum).
Dr. Heather Levy gave a paper "Immortal Longings": Elizabeth Bowen and Murder at the Marginalised Maintstream Conference at the University of London on September 13, 2013.
December, 2012
Dr. Heather Levy will be presenting a paper at the London Women's Leadership Symposium hosted by Cambridge Club, December 8, 2012.
Summer 2012
Dr. Shouhua Qi presented a paper titled "Anxiety, Angst, and the Search for Hardys Chinese Tw(a)in" at the 20th International Thomas Hardy Conference, Dorchester, UK, 18-26 August 2012.
Dr. Shouhua Qi's
article "Translation and Transmutation: Hardy in the Post-Mao,
Market-Driven China" has been published in
the Hardy Review.
The Thomas Hardy Association. VIV-I (Spring 2012): 47-58 .
April 2012
Chris Bolster, an MA in English student, will be presenting a paper, "Garfield as Trickster: The Existential Implications of a World Without Garfield" at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, April 2012, Boston, MA.
Spring 2012
Dr. Shouhua Qi's new book Western Literature in China and the Translation of a Nation is released in spring 2012 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). This book traces the contours of the ways in which Western literature has been introduced and received in China from the 1840s to the present. It is an attempt to navigate and unpack the complex dynamics, or fault zones, of texts (literary and sociopolitical), contexts (Chinese and Western), intertexts (translation and creative writing), dominance (language, culture, ideology) and resistance, and of tension and convergence.
Fall 2011
Dr. Anam K. Govardhan was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship by The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (Washington, DC) to teach at VIT University, India, 2011-2012. Dr. Govardhan received the same award to teach at Al Buraimi University, Oman, for 2010-2011, but due to exigencies at WCSU he was not able to go and teach there.
Dr. Anam K. Govardhan gave a lecture titled Research Methodology and Thesis Writing at the National Workshop at Loyola College, Chennai, India, Dec 1, 2011.
Dr. Anam K. Govardhan gave a lecture titled Best Practices in Essay Writingat Sharad Pawar International School, Poone, India, Nov 25, 2011.
Dr. Anam K. Govardhan gave a lecture titled From Research Paper to Thesis Writing at Justice Basheer Ahmed Womens University, Chennai, Nov 18, 2011
Dr. Anam K. Govardhan gave a lecture titled How to Start Research Paper and Documentation at University of Madras, Chennai, Nov 17, 2011
Dr. Anam K. Govardhan gave a lecture titled SAT Essay and How to Write Recommendation Letters at the Workshop Organized at Bangalore, India by the College Board, NY, Nov.10-11, 2011.
Dr. Anam K. Govardhan gave a lecture titled Technical Writing, Report Writing, and Thesis Writing. at Periyar Maniammal University, Tanjore, India, Nov 3-4, 2011.
Dr. Anam K. Govardhan gave a lecture titled Research and Writing at Academic Staff College, University of Madras, Chennai, India, Nov 2, 2011.
Dr. Anam K. Govardhan gave a lecture titled Natives of America at Gateway International School, Chennai, Oct 28, 2011.
Dr. Anam K. Govardhan gave a lecture titled Technical Writing at Mahendra Educational Institutions, Salem, India, Oct 13, 2011.
Fall 2011
Jason Burgher, a graduate of the BA in English program (2009), has been accepted by Teach For America, "the national corps of outstanding college graduates of all academic majors who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and who become lifelong leaders in the effort to end educational inequity."
November, 2011
Dr. Ingrid Pruss presented her paper entitled "Image a Spiritual Hologram: Lady Gaga & Alexander McQueen, Royalty of a Different Fashion," at the Northeast Popular Culture Association Conference on Saturday, November 12th, 2011.
Summer 2011
Dr. Anam K. Govardhan gave a lecture titled Growth and Development of English Language. Alpha Arts and Science College, Chennai, India, Aug 26, 2011.
Dr. Anam K. Govardhan gave a lecture titled Report Writing. Psychology Department, University of Madras, Chennai, India, Aug 18, 2011.
Dr. Anam K. Govardhan gave a lecture titled Opportunities for English Majors. Justice Basheer Ahmed Womens University, Chennai, India, July 25, 2011.
Dr. Anam K. Govardhan gave a lecture titled Research and Writing: Methodology and Writing for Journals at HIPC Symposium at PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India, July 23, 2011.
Dr. Anam K. Govardhan gave a lecture titled Thesis Writing and Documentation in Research Paper at English Department, University of Madras, Chennai, India, July 19-21, 2011
June 2011
Dr. Shouhua Qi presented a paper titled "Transmutation under Borrowed Lenses: The 'Success Story' of Thomas Hardy in the Post-Mao, Market-Driven China" at Hardy at Yale International Conference. June 9-12, 2011. Yale University, New Haven, CT. Sponsored by the Thomas Hardy Association.
May 2011
Dr. Ingrid Pruss attended the University of Michigan's 4T Virtual Conference: Teachers Teaching Teachers about Technology (May 22nd- May 25th 2011).
April 2011
Dr. Ingrid Pruss published a prose poem, "ad fontes," on Seam Ripper: Women on Textual & Sartorial Style, an online literary art feature/journal curated /edited by Kate Durbin and Becca Klaver. (click here to access the poem)
Dr. Ciğdem Usekes'
essay "The New Desdemona: The White Liberal Woman in African American Drama" will appear in the journal
Philological Review.
March 2011
Dr. Michael J. Chappell presented a paper titled "The Pleasures of Friendship and Society: Pekuah and the Arab's Seraglio in Rasselas" at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Vancouver, BC, March 17-20, 2011
January 2011
Dr. Shouhua Qi presented a paper titled "Mightier, Double-Edged Sword: Translation of Western Texts, Nationhood, and Cultural Survival for China at the Turn of the 20th Century" at the 2011 Modern Language Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA. January 6-9, 2011.
April 2010
The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction (ed. by Tara L. Masih, 2009), for which Dr. Shouhua Qi is a contributing author, has been named a finalist of ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards 2009. Winners will be announced at Book Expo America in New York in June.
Dr. Ciğdem Usekes has been invited to contribute her essay entitled "James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry: Two Revolutionaries, One Heart, One Mind" to a special issue of the journal Obsidian dedicated to Baldwin.
April 2010
Dr. Ciğdem Usekes will be presenting a paper tentatively entitled "Did the Sixties Make James Baldwin Too Black and Too Queer?: The Politics and the Critics of Blues for Mister Charlie and Fortune & Men's Eyes" at the 2010 NEMLA Convention in Montreal, Canada.
Dr. Anam K. Govardhan published an article Error Correction Strategies for ESL Students at Indian Voices in ELT. Viva Publications, New Delhi, India, 2009.
December 2009
Dr. Heather Levy will be presenting a paper on The Lost Eves of Peidra Azul: Teresa de la Parra's _Mama Blanca's Souvenirs at the MLA Convention in Philadelphia.
Fall 2009
Dr. Ciğdem Usekes published an essay on playwright Ed Bullins in the
Literary Encyclopedia.
Summer 2009
Dr. Heather Levy attended The Southampton Fiction Writers Conference in July and The Southampton Screenwriting Conference in August 2009.
Spring 2009
Dr. Michael Chappell's essay, "Death by Discourse, or the Fate of Jimmy in The Wild One," appeared in the Spring 2009 issue of the International Journal of Motorcycle Studies.
June 01-03, 2009
Dr. Shouhua Qi presented a three-day lecture/workshop on "Strategies for Teaching Critical Thinking and Argumentative Writing" at
China FLT Textbooks and Methodology Research Center, Shanghai International Studies University.
April 2009
Dr. Michael Chappell presented a paper, "Bring Back the '70s: Thoughts on What We Have Lost," at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, April 2009, New Orleans, LA.
April 24-28, 2009
Dr. Shouhua Qi's three-act play Twin-Sun River: An American POW in China was staged by the prestigious Shanghai Theater Academy (8 performances altogether).
March 19-21, 2009
Dr. Cigdem Usekes will be presenting a paper at the "James Baldwin: In His Time/In Our Time" Conference at Suffolk University, Boston, MA.
Dr. Maureen Maguire is working on a book tentatively titled Love Songs from Thomas Campion to Bob Dylan: How Four Centuries of Social Change Has Affected the Voice of the Troubadour.
March 2009
Dr. Cigdem Usekes' essay "'We's the Leftovers': Whiteness as Economic Power and Exploitation in August Wilson's Twentieth-Century Cycle of Plays" will be republished in the collection August Wilson edited by Harold Bloom (part of the Modern Critical Views series, forthcoming March 2009).
Fall 2008
Dr. Michael Chappell's review of The Mammoth Book of Bikers, edited by Arthur Veno, appeared in the Fall 2008 issue of the International Journal of Motorcycle Studies.
November 7-9, 2008
Dr. Cigdem Usekes presented a paper entitled "James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry: Two Revolutionaries, One Heart, One Mind" at the American Drama Conference at Saint Francis College in Brooklyn, NY (November 7-9, 2008).
Fall 2008
The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Contemporary Chinese Flash Fiction, preface and translation by Dr. Shouhua Qi, was released fall 2008 (Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press).
July 26-August 2, 2008
Dr. Shouhua Qi presented a paper titled "'You deceived menot by words, but by appearances': First Impressions and Tragic Consequences in The Return of the Native, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure" at the 18th International Thomas Hardy Conference (Dorchester, UK. 26th July 2nd August 2008).
July 2, 2008
Dr. Heather Levy presented a paper "Provisional Bliss: Landscape and London in Elizabeth Bowen's To the North" on July 2, 2008 at the Literary London Conference hosted by Brunel University, Uxbridge.
June 26-28, 2008
Dr. Margaret Murray is currently organizing a conference on Edith Wharton for the Wharton Society, which is to be held at The Mount, in Lenox MA. Students are invited, and may attend all sessions.
June 2008
Dr. Heather Levy visited the New Archive for Poetry at the Mandeville Library at U.C. Davis in June 2008 to research Hannah Weiner's unpublished poetry. This work was conducted through an AAUP research grant.
March 26-27, 2008
Dr. Shouhua Qi was invited to give a lecture for the Honors Program at Harrisburg Area Community College March 26-27, 2008. The title of his lecture was "History and the Novel: The Role of Literature in Understanding the Dynamics of Power."
March 24, 2008
A stage reading of Dr. Shouhua Qi's Twin-Sun River (a screenplay about an American Korean War POW who chose to go to China at the time of armistice) was performed in the HBO Building in New York (5:30 PM- 8:00 PM, March 24, 2008). The event was sponsored by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences New York, produced by Emmy-winning Louisa Burns-Bisogno and Ellen Muir, and directed by Pam McDaniel. Earlier (6:00PM-8:00PM, March 19, 2008), Dr. Qi was invited to give a seminar lecture at the academy titled "Translating from Novel to Screenplay: Challenges and Pitfalls Merging Three Cultures (Chinese, Japanese, Western)."
February 17, 2008
Dr. Ingrid Pruss presented a paper entitled, "Miri Ben-Ari's 'Symphony of Brotherhood': Is it really about us?" at the 2008 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference. The paper demonstrated the use of Ben-Ari's hip-hop video as an adjunctive tool for teaching critical methods and advanced poetry, specifically the dramatic monologue.
December 27-30, 2007
Dr. Heather Levy will be presenting a paper entitled "More than 'Trash to Buy Tobacco': Sinister Badges of Womanhood, Blackness and Homosexuality in Melville's Redburn" at the 2007 Modern Language Association Convention in Chicago.
Fall 2007
Dr. Margaret Murray will be on sabbatical for the fall. The purpose of this leave is twofold: (1) to train as Associate Editor of The Edith Wharton Review and (2) to continue her research on the life of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman in order to write a critical biography, which is now in progress. The working title is For the Love of French Hats: The Life of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.
Dr. Donald P. Gagnon serves as faculty advisor to the English Society, the English Honor Society as well as Stand Together, the organization for g/l/b/t/q students. In addition, Dr. Gagnon is co-chair of the annual Banned Books Week event this year.
Dr. Margaret Murray and Professor (Judy) Sullivan had a get together for students and community members for a chance to chat with like minded Potterphiles about the last book in the Potter series, Harry Postter and the Deathly Hallows. All invited, all ages.
Western Literary Studies: Traditions, Trends, and Topics, which Dr. Shouhua Qi co-edited and contributed to, is released by People's University of China Press in Beijing.
Dr. Cigdem Usekes presented her paper "In Another Country: James Baldwin and the Turkish Theatre Scene" at the James Baldwin Conference in London, England. This project was sponsored by a 2006-2007 CSU-AAUP Research Grant.
June 14-17, 2007
Dr. Shouhua Qi presented a paper entitled "Imagining Hardy in the Brave New World Today" at "Hardy At Yale," an international conference organized by The Thomas Hardy Association. He is the organizer of the panel "Thomas Hardy and the Globalized World."
May 10, 2007
Dr. Shouhua Qi is Western's recipient of the 2006-2007 Connecticut State University Board of Trustees Research Award. The annual award was established in 2006 to recognize an assistant or associate professor from each of the four CSU universities for his or her "research/creative work of exceptional promise" and for having demonstrated "substantive contributions, achievements and scholarly activity" in his or her field in the last five years.
May 2007
Dr. Michael J. Chappell is named to the editorial board of the International Journal of Motorcycle Studies.
April 25, 2007
Dr. Shouhua Qi's paper entitled "Traditions and Trends in Western Literary Genre Studies" was published by Foreign Literature Studies (Vol 29, No. 2, April 2007, pp.31-42), Wuhan, China.
April, 2007
Dr. Margaret Murray gave a paper entitled "The Brokeback American Hero: From Salem to Wyoming" at the American Culture Association conference held in Boston, MA.
Dr. Shouhua Qi's short story collection entitled Red Guard Fantasies and Other Stories (Long River Press, 2007) was released. Gloria Frym, an American Book Award winner, says the 14 stories in the collection "gloriously join the lineage of Chekhov" while Daniel Asa Rose, a two-time Pen Fiction Award recipient, says "[b]y turns tender and chilling, these elegant and deeply knowing tales linger in the mind."
April 2007
Dr. Michael J. Chappell presented a paper, "A Brief History of the 21st Century Motorcycle Hero," at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference in Boston, MA.
March, 2007
Dr. Ingrid Pruss gave an interdisciplinary paper/performance art piece at the CSU Sensorium in New Britain, CT on the necessity of acknowledging teaching as an artistic, creative genre and a valid form of art and the impact of originality in the classroom on students' performance in the class based on group work, individual presentations and papers. Pruss used Shakespeare, advertising, postmodern art, the entertainment industry, and some of her own work to make her point.
Dr. Anam K. Govardhan co-presented a paper titled A Globalized Indian English at the Forty-first TESOL Annual International Convention, Seattle, WA, March 21-24, 2007.
February 8, 2007
Dr. Shouhua Qi was the featured author speaker for the Writing Contest sponsored by Kennedy Middle School of Southington, CT.
January 2007
Dr. Shouhua Qi was a featured writer of a Reading and Signing event sponsored by the MFA program, Irfan Kathwari Honors House, WCSU.
Fall 2006-Spring 2007
Dr. Margaret Murray was named as Assistant Editor of the Edith Wharton Review during spring 2007. She was also named Secretary of the Edith Wharton Society during fall 2006.
December 27-30, 2006
Dr. Margaret Murray chaired a panel on Edith Wharton at the 2006 MLA Convention in Philadelphia, PA. The panel's title was "Narcissism in the Works of Edith Wharton."
Dr. Michael J. Chappell presented a paper, "Vultures, Indians, and Colonial Expansion: Samuel Johnson and the First Great War," at the Silo, Hunt Hill Farm, New Milford, CT.
June 2006
Dr. Michael J. Chappell was interviewed in CSU Universe about his work in motorcycle studies and its application in the classroom.
April 27, 2006
Dr. Shouhua Qi was the featured speaker of the Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month at Norwalk Community College, CT. The title of his speech is "Bridging the Pacific: A Personal Journey from a Different Shore."
April 27, 2006
Dr. Shouhua Qi was the keynote speaker of the 2006 IMPAC-Connecticut State University Young Writers Trust. The title of his speech is "Impac[t]ing the World with Your Words".
April 2006
Dr. Michael J. Chappell presented a paper, "Hunter S. Thompson: A Literary Appraisal of Hell's Angels" at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference in Atlanta, GA.
March 2006
Dr. Michael J. Chappell presented a paper, "Vultures, Indians, and Colonial Expansion: Samuel Johnson and the First Great War," at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Montreal, QC


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*Sigh* Are things really THIS bad?
This isn't a joke. It's true. The United States Army now has recruits who are in their 40's.
I know we're at war and all that... but 41 year old recruits? I'm sure these older recruits are plenty patriotic and all... but are ALL the eligible 18-28 year olds already serving?
The answer to that is an obvious HELL NO!!!
OK, the President won't come out and say it... so I will.
Young men of America - I'm speaking specifically to you, because you will be the ones who'll be the gunslingers. Your country needs you --- desperately.
Young men of America - Because of a lack of men joining, young LADIES now have to man the weapons on convoy duty (and other related operations) in Iraq and Afghanistan. Because of a lack of men joining, young LADIES are engaged in firefights. Because of a lack of men joining, young LADIES are being killed in combat. All because of a lack of men who are man enough to answer the call of duty.
Young men of America - One day when you are bouncing your grandchildren on your knee, they'll ask you what you did in the war that kept us free from terrorism. What answer will you give them? "I wanted to stay in school" --- "I had a career to worry about" --- "I was content to let your grandmother do my fighting for me" --- "I was a coward".
Young men of America... young CATHOLIC men of America - What kind of real Catholic man has a woman do his fighting for him?


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Metascore®Universal acclaimbased on a weighted average of allcritic review scores.
Drama, comedy, action and romance are intertwined in this gorgeously photographed and brilliantly directed film. Lead performances are thoroughly engaging despite - or perhaps because of - being wordless.
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Silence makes the film interesting by enticing us to concentrate in ways we're not used to, while artistry carries the day. The Artist may have started as a daring stunt, but it elevates itself to an endearing - and probably enduring - delight.
Artist evinces unlimited love for the look and ethos of the 1920s as well for the style of the movies. The filmmakers clearly did their homework and took great pleasure in doing so, an enjoyment that is passed along in ample doses to any viewer game for their nifty little conceit.
Days after I saw The Artist, I was still thinking (and grinning) about it, because the movie's real romance is the one between us, the jaded 21st-century audience, and the mechanical innocence of old movies, which here becomes new again.
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OK for kids 13+
Loving tribute to silent films has a few tense moments.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that The Artist -- a black-and-white homage to Hollywood's silent movies of the 1920s -- is nearly silent itself, relying on characters' gestures and expressions, the musical score, and occasional title cards to tell its story of fame, fortune, and friendship. As such, it might not appeal to many kids, but those who really love movies may be drawn in by its references, setting, and old-fashioned celebration of cinema. There are a few tense/violent scenes, including one in which a distraught character puts a gun in his own mouth and another in which a fire gets out of control. You can also expect lots of era-accurate smoking and a fair bit of drinking, including some overindulgence. But there's virtually no language or sexual content, and in the end characters learn important lessons about the value of friendship and humility.
Messages: The movie celebrates friendship/loyalty, old Hollywood, and the magic of the movies, though it also suggests that "progress" is inevitable -- and that some people, especially those who are no longer young or fresh, may be cast aside in the process. Characters eventually learn difficult lessons about being overly proud and turning away help and affection when they're offered.
Role models: George starts out full of confidence and cheer (albeit with a tendency to hog the limelight); as his fortunes change, so does his outlook. Frustration and self-pity eventually overwhelm him, but he fights his way out of their shadow and learns that it's not beneath him to accept help and friendship from others. Peppy overall lives up to her name -- she's determined and goal-oriented, but she's also cheerful, loyal, and energetic.
Violence: In one tense/upsetting scene, it appears as though a character is going to commit suicide with a gun (he puts it into his mouth). Also, the movie opens on a mild torture scene (a character is shocked via electricity) that turns out to be part of a film within the film -- as are a few quick fight/chase scenes that follow. Another film-within-a-film sequence shows someone falling victim to quicksand. Also, a car crashes, and a reckless fire gets out of control and causes damage to property and one character.
Sex: Some flirting, longing glances, close dancing, and chaste embraces.
Language: One use of "damn" (on title card); one rude gesture (a character flips someone off).
Consumerism: Not an issue
Drinking, drugs and smoking: Very frequent smoking (accurate for the era); mostly cigarettes, but also some cigars. Adult characters also drink (mostly cocktails/hard liquor), sometimes to excess; while drunk, one character has visions and makes a rash, dangerous decision.
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The town with the highest sea level in the Czech Republic lays in the middle of the painterly Außergefild-layers. The goldes sheds are the reason why the first winners of gold came to this unhospitable region in the 14th century
The goldsand was washed in the streams "Kvildsky" oder "Jezerni". Today these places are an archeological sight of the Czech Republic. Another pregnant happening for the progression and population was the expansion of the "Horní zlatá stezka" (Goldener Obersteig) Since then Passau was bounded with Kasperské Hory (Bergreichenstein). The way also passed Kvilda. In 1356 Karl IV traced out the way and in 1366 salt wasdelivered from baveria and back came especially beer, malt and hops etc. The first written mention about the town was in 1569, because of a dominant town wich belonged to the large estate "Velkostatek zdíkovský". Not only the population was the reason for Kivilda to become a major town of the central-Böhmerwald. Kvilda had a lot of economic potential. There are not only woodworking companys but rather glasworks and paperworks in Frantiskoy (Franzental). 1120 inhabitants was living in 180 houses in 1945. The germaninhabitants was forced to leave Kvilda. A of small number of inhomogeneous inhabitants was also moved. But this wasn't the reasons wich governed Kvilda but rather it was the construction of a border zone. Expressly the western border was subject to a a strict governmental system. 238 Inhabitants was living in 144 houses in 1950. Today Kvilda has a population of 170. The cadastral region of Kvilda (4517 ha = 5719 m2) includes the not any longer existing town Bucina (Buchwald). Kvilda (3131 ha = 7712 m2) and Bucina (1385 ha = 8007 m2).
Today Kvilda is a importent holiday centrum of the central-Böhmerwald wich offers the tourists over 750 beds in 19 institutions. Kvilda has also a town hall, a post authority, a food shop, abakery, a sports shop, a drugstore, ski hiring and bike hiring. The information center of the town Kvilda and the information "NP Sumava" (National Böhmerwald) cares about the tourists.
The communal-development, public meetings and photographs could be visited at the exposition of history of Kvilda and Bucina (Buchwald) in the town hall. The cadastral area of the community is in the national park Sumava. The obtained environmental ist he requirement to another development of the tourism. Kvilda offers with the attractive "Jezerni slat" (Seefilz), the 6 km distant Moldauquelle and the Buchwald unique views on the surrounding of the Böhmerwald.


text: Analysis News Staff Picks CONFIRMED: Russia formally invites US to join Syrian peace talks in Astana In a gesture to the incoming Trump administration Russia invites the US to attend the forthcoming Syrian peace conference in Astana, calculating that it makes better sense to have the US on side with the process rather than left outside seeking to disrupt it. Iran however makes its skepticism clear. Published 2 years ago on January 19, 2017 By Alexander Mercouris 224 Views Share Tweet Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov has today confirmed that the Russians have extended an invitation to the US to join the Syrian peace talks in Astana, which is due to start on Monday. It is not yet certain that US President Trump – due to be inaugurated tomorrow – will accept this offer, but the likelihood is that he will. The Russian offer is known to have been backed by Turkey but to have attracted misgivings from Iran, which along with Russia and Turkey is co-hosting the conference. The Russians have however clearly prevailed over this issue. The Russian offer is in part a courtesy extended to the incoming Trump administration, signalling Russia's willingness to work with the new administration to patch up relations. However there is also undoubtedly a hardheaded calculation that if the US is excluded from the negotiations in Astana it will have more incentive to act as a spoiler. With the US still pulling many of the strings in the Syrian conflict, that is not a situation the Russians want to face, which is why they would rather have the US talking in Astana, on the assumption that this will make it less likely that the US will make trouble for Moscow in Syria. If Donald Trump is serious about making the fight against ISIS his priority he will accept the Russian offer. It is overwhelmingly in the US interest to put aside its regime change obsession, so that it can achieve a settlement in Syria that would enable all the local forces (Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria) to join together with the US and Russia in fighting ISIS. The trouble is that there are probably officials in the incoming Trump administration who are every bit as dismayed by the way the US has been sidelined in the Syrian conflict as officials in the outgoing Obama administration are known to be. They will no doubt be determinedly lobbying for the US to stay away from Astana, and for it instead to double down on its support for the Kurds and for the various Jihadi groups fighting the Syrian government in order to leverage Russia back into a bilateral dialogue with the US. Even if Trump does decide that the US should attend the Astana conference these people will not go away, and it remains to be see whether if the US attends the conference in Astana whether it will chose to play a constructive role. The Russians nonetheless appear to hope that Trump's pragmatism will ultimately prevail over the wounded pride of many US officials. It remains to be see whether it is Russian optimism or Iranian skepticism which will turn out to be right. Related Topics:RussiaUSIranSyrian conflictAstana conference Up Next Obama again tries to box in Trump on Russia; tells him not to links nuclear weapons to sanctions Don't Miss The deal Russia wants from Donald Trump Advertisement You may like Is This The Most Important Geopolitical Deal Of 2018? America's Militarized Economy Sergey Lavrov SLAMS new US sanctions over Skripal case Comments Latest The US-Turkey Crisis: The NATO Alliance Forged in 1949 Is Today Largely Irrelevant Published 14 hours ago on August 14, 2018 By Philip Giraldi Authored by Philip Giraldi via American Herald Tribune: There has been some reporting in the United States mass media about the deteriorating relationship between Washington and Ankara and what it might mean. Such a falling out between NATO members has not been seen since France left the alliance in 1966 and observers note that the hostility emanating from both sides suggests that far worse is to come as neither party appears prepared to moderate its current position while diplomatic exchanges have been half-hearted and designed to lead nowhere. The immediate cause of the breakdown is ostensibly President Donald Trump's demand that an American Protestant minister who has lived in Turkey for twenty-three years be released from detention. Andrew Brunson was arrested 21 months ago and charged with being a supporter of the alleged conspiracy behind the military coup in 2016 that sought to kill or replace President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan has asserted that the coup was directed by former political associate Fetullah Gulen, who lives in exile in Pennsylvania, but has produced little credible evidence to support that claim. In the aftermath of the coup attempt, Erdogan has had himself voted extraordinary special powers to maintain public order and has arrested 160,000 people, including 20 Americans, who have been imprisoned. More than 170,000 civil servants, teachers, and military personnel have lost their jobs, the judiciary has been hobbled, and senior army officers have been replaced by loyalists. Gulen is a religious leader who claims to promote a moderate brand of Islam that is compatible with western values. His power base consists of a large number of private schools that educate according to his curriculum, with particular emphasis on math and sciences. Many of the graduates become part of a loose affiliation that has sometimes been described as a cult. Gulen also owns and operates a number of media outlets, all of which have now been shut by Erdogan as part of his clamp down on the press. Turkey currently imprisons more journalists than any other country. It is widely believed that Erdogan has been offering to release Brunson in exchange for Gulen, but President Donald Trump has instead offered only a Turkish banker currently in a U.S. prison while also turning the heat up in the belief that pressure on Turkey will force it to yield. Washington began the tit-for-tat by imposing sanctions on two cabinet-level officials in Erdogan's government: Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu and Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul. Ankara has now also been on the receiving end of a Trump tweet and tariffs have been placed on a broad range of Turkish products, to include steel and aluminum. The view that economic pressure will force the Turks to yield could be mistaken and demonstrates that the Administration does not include anyone who knows that Americans have been unpopular in Turkey since the Gulf War. The threats from Washington might actually rally skeptical and normally pro-western Turks around Erdogan but U.S. sanctions have already hit the Turkish economy hard, with the lira having lost 40% of its value this year and continuing to sink rapidly. Foreign investors, who fueled much of Turkey's recent economic growth, have fled the market, suggesting that a collapse in credit might be on the way. Those European banks that hold Turkish debt are fearing a possible default. It is a spectacle of one NATO member driving another NATO member's economy into the ground over a political dispute. Erdogan has responded in his autocratic fashion by condemning "interest rates" and calling for an "economic war" against the U.S., telling his supporters to unload all their liquid valuables, gold and foreign to buy the plummeting lira, a certain recipe for disaster. If they do that, they will likely lose everything. Other contentious issues involved in the badly damaged bilateral relationship are conflicting views on what to do about Syria, where the Turks have a legitimate interest due to potential Kurdish terrorism and are seeking a buffer zone, as well as Ankara's interest in buying Russian air defense missile systems, which has prompted the U.S. to suspend sales of the new F-35 fighter. The Turks have also indicated that they have no interest in enforcing the sanctions on Iran that were re-imposed last week and they will continue to buy Iranian oil after the November 4th initiation of a U.S. ban on such purchases. The Trump Administration has warned that it will sanction any country that refuses to comply, setting the stage for a massive confrontation between Washington and Ankara involving the Turkish Central Bank. In terms of U.S. interests, Turkey, which has the second largest army in NATO, is of strategic value because it is Muslim, countering arguments that the alliance is some kind of Christian club working to suppress Islam in the Middle East. And it is also important because of its geographic location close to hot spots where the American military is currently engaged. If the U.S. heeds Trump's call to cut back on involvement in the region, Turkey will become less valuable, but currently, access to the Incirlik Airbase, near Adana and the Syrian border, is vital. Indeed, Incirlik has become one of the flashpoints in the argument with Washington. Last week, a group of lawyers connected politically to Erdogan initiated legal action against U.S. officers at Incirlik over claimed ties to "terrorists" linked to Gulen. The "Association for Social Justice and Aid" has called for a temporary halt to all operations at the base to permit a search for evidence. The attorneys are asking for the detention of seven named American Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels. General Joseph Votel, head of U.S. Central Command based in Germany is also cited. If the lawyers are successful in court, it will mean a major conflict as Washington asserts the rights of the officers under the Status of Forces Agreement, while Turkey will no doubt insist that the Americans are criminals and have no protection. Another trial balloon being floated by Erdogan is even more frightening in terms of the demons that it could be unleashing. Abdurrahman Dilipak, an Islamist columnist writing in the pro-government newspaper Yeni Atik, has suggested that there might well be a second terrorist attack on the United States like 9/11. Dilipak threatened that if Trump does nothing to reduce tension "…some people will teach him [to do] that. It must be seen that if internal tensions with the United States continue like this that a September 11 is no unlikely possibility." Dilipak also warned that presumed Gulenist "U.S. collaborators" inside Turkey would be severely punished if they dared to go out into the streets to protest in support of Washington. If recent developments in Turkey deteriorate further it might well suggest that Donald Trump's instinct to disengage from the Middle East was the right call, though it could equally be seen as a rejection of the tactic being employed, i.e. using heavy-handed sanctions and tariffs to compel obedience from governments disinclined to follow Washington's leadership. Either way, the Turkish-American relationship is in trouble and increasingly a liability for both sides, yet another indication that the NATO alliance forged in 1949 against the Soviet Union is today largely irrelevant. Continue Reading Latest Is This The Most Important Geopolitical Deal Of 2018? After more than 20 years of fraught diplomatic efforts, the five littoral Caspian nations agreed upon a legal framework for sharing the world's largest inland body of water. Published 14 hours ago on August 14, 2018 By The Duran Authored by Olgu Okumus via Oilprice.com: The two-decade-long dispute on the statute of the Caspian Sea, the world largest water reserve, came to an end last Sunday when five littoral states (Russia, Iran, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan) agreed to give it a special legal status – it is now neither a sea, nor a lake. Before the final agreement became public, the BBC wrote that all littoral states will have the freedom of access beyond their territorial waters, but natural resources will be divided up. Russia, for its part, has guaranteed a military presence in the entire basin and won't accept any NATO forces in the Caspian. Russian energy companies can explore the Caspian's 50 billion barrels of oil and its 8.4 trillion cubic meters of natural gas reserves, Turkmenistan can finally start considering linking its gas to the Turkish-Azeri joint project TANAP through a trans-Caspian pipeline, while Iran has gained increased energy supplies for its largest cities in the north of the country (Tehran, Tabriz, and Mashhad) – however, Iran has also put itself under the shadow of Russian ships. This controversy makes one wonder to what degree U.S. sanctions made Iran vulnerable enough to accept what it has always avoided – and how much these U.S. sanctions actually served NATO's interests. If the seabed, rich in oil and gas, is divided this means more wealth and energy for the region. From 1970 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union (USSR) in 1991, the Caspian Sea was divided into subsectors for Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan – all constituent republics of the USSR. The division was implemented on the basis of the internationally-accepted median line. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the new order required new regulations. The question was over whether the Caspian was a sea or a lake? If it was treated as a sea, then it would have to be covered by international maritime law, namely the United Nations Law of the Sea. But if it is defined as a lake, then it could be divided equally between all five countries. The so-called "lake or sea" dispute revolved over the sovereignty of states, but also touched on some key global issues – exploiting oil and gas reserves in the Caspian Basin, freedom of access, the right to build beyond territorial waters, access to fishing and (last but not least) managing maritime pollution. The IEA concluded in World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2017 that offshore energy has a promising future. More than a quarter of today's oil and gas supply is produced offshore, and integrated offshore thinking will extend this beyond traditional sources onwards to renewables and more. Caspian offshore hydrocarbon reserves are around 50 billion barrels of oil equivalent (equivalent to one third of Iraq's total oil reserves) and 8.4 trillion cubic meters of gas (almost equivalent to the U.S.' entire proven gas reserves). As if these quantities were not themselves enough to rebalance Eurasian energy demand equations, the agreement will also allow Turkmenistan to build the Trans-Caspian pipeline, connecting Turkmenistan's resources to the Azeri-Turkish joint project TANAP, and onwards to Europe – this could easily become a counter-balance factor to the growing LNG business in Europe. Even though we still don't have firm and total details on the agreement, Iran seems to have gained much less than its neighbors, as it has shortest border on the Caspian. From an energy perspective, Iran would be a natural market for the Caspian basin's oil and gas, as Iran's major cities (Tehran, Tabriz, and Mashhad) are closer to the Caspian than they are to Iran's major oil and gas fields. Purchasing energy from the Caspian would also allow Iran to export more of its own oil and gas, making the country a transit route from the Caspian basin to world markets. For instance, for Turkmenistan (who would like to sell gas to Pakistan) Iran provides a convenient geography. Iran could earn fees for swap arrangements or for providing a transit route and justify its trade with Turkey and Turkmenistan as the swap deal is allowed under the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA, or the D'Amato Act). If the surface water will be in common usage, all littoral states will have access beyond their territorial waters. In practical terms, this represents an increasingly engaged Russian presence in the Basin. It also reduces any room for a NATO presence, as it seems to be understood that only the five littoral states will have a right to military presence in the Caspian. Considering the fact that Russia has already used its warships in the Caspian to launch missile attacks on targets within Syria, this increased Russian presence could potentially turn into a security threat for Iran. Many questions can now be asked on what Tehran might have received in the swap but one piece of evidence for what might have pushed Iran into agreement in its vulnerable position in the face of increased U.S. sanctions. Given that the result of those sanctions seems to be Iran agreeing to a Caspian deal that allows Russia to place warships on its borders, remove NATO from the Caspian basin equation, and increase non-Western based energy supplies (themselves either directly or indirectly within Russia's sphere of geopolitical influence) it makes one wonder whose interests those sanctions actually served? By Olgu Okumus for Oilprice.com Continue Reading Latest America's Militarized Economy At some point, the West will have to recognize Crimea's right to self rule. Published 14 hours ago on August 14, 2018 By Eric Zuesse Authored by Eric Zuesse, originally posted at Unz Review: Donald Trump's biggest success, thus far into his Presidency, has been his sale of $400 billion (originally $350 billion) of U.S.-made weapons to the Saudi Arabian Government, which is owned by its royal family, after whom that nation is named. This sale alone is big enough to be called Trump's "jobs plan" for Americans. It is also the biggest weapons-sale in all of history. It's 400 billion dollars, not 400 million dollars; it is gigantic, and, by far, unprecedented in world-history. The weapons that the Sauds and their friends, the 7 monarchies that constitute the United Arab Emirates, are using right now, in order to conquer and subdue Yemen, are almost entirely made in America. That's terrific business for America. Not only are Americans employed, in strategically important congressional districts (that is, politically important congressional districts), to manufacture this equipment for mass-murdering in foreign lands that never threatened (much less invaded) America, but the countries that purchase this equipment are thereby made dependent upon the services of those American manufacturers, and of the taxpayer-funded U.S. 'Defense' Department and its private military contractors such as Lockheed Martin, to maintain this equipment, and to train the local military enforcers, on how to operate these weapons. Consequently, foreign customers of U.S. military firms are buying not only U.S. weapons, but the U.S. Government's protection — the protection by the U.S. military, of those monarchs. They are buying the label of being an "American ally" so that the U.S. news media can say that this is in defense of American allies (regardless of whether it's even that). American weapons are way overpriced for what they can do, but they are a bargain for what they can extract out of America's taxpayers, who fund the U.S. 'Defense' Department and thus fund the protection of those monarchs: these kings and other dictators get U.S. taxpayers to fund their protection. It's an international protection-racket funded by American taxpayers and those rulers, in order to protect those rulers; and the victims aren't only the people who get slaughtered in countries such as Afghanistan, and Iraq, and Libya, and Syria, and Yemen, and Palestine, but also (though only financially) are the American public, who get fleeced by it — the American public provide the bulk of the real funding for this operation to expand the lands where America's allies rule, and so to serve both America's aristocracy and the aristocracies that are America's allies. This is how today's America enforces its 'democracy' around the world, so that America can spread this 'democracy', at gunpoint, and at bomb-point, like America's allies, those Kings and Emirs, and the apartheid regime in Israel, are doing, to the people whom they kill and conquer, with help from the taxpayer-funded American military — funded to protect those aristocrats, against their respective publics, and to further enrich America's own aristocrats, at the expense of America's own public. The global 'aggressor' has been identified by America's previous President, Barack Obama, who won office like Trump did, by promising 'a reset' in relations with post-communist Russia, and by mocking Obama's opponent (Mitt Romney) for having called Russia "the number one geopolitical foe" — which America's aristocracy has historically considered Russia to be, ever since the aristocracy in Russia fled and were killed in 1917, which caused America's and other aristocracies to fear and hate Russia and Russians, for having ousted its aristocracy, this being an act that aristocrats everywhere are determined to avenge, regardless of 'ideology'. (Similarly, America and its pro-aristocracy foreign allies, seek to avenge Iran's 1979 overthrow of the Shah.) As Obama's own actions during his subsequent Presidency made clear, and as he already had started in 2011 (if not from day one of his Presidency) secretly to implement, he privately agreed with what Romney said on that occasion, but he was intelligent enough (which his opponent obviously was not) to recognize that the American public, at that time, did not agree with it but instead believed that Islamic terrorists and aristocrats such as the Sauds who finance them are that); and Obama took full advantage of his opponent's blunder there, which helped Obama to win a second term in the White House (after having skillfully hidden from the public during his first term, his intention to weaken Russia by eliminating leaders who were friends or even allies of Russia, such as in Syria, and Ukraine). This is American 'democracy', after all (rule by deceit, lies), and that's the reason why, when Russia, in 2014, responded to the U.S. coup in Ukraine (a coup under the cover of anti-corruption demonstrations) which coup was taking over this large country next-door to Russia and thus constituted a deadly threat to Russia's national security, Obama declared Russia to be the world's top 'aggressor'. Obama overthrew Ukraine and then damned Russia's leader Putin for responding to Obama's aggressive threat against Russia from this coup in neighboring Ukraine. Russia was supposedly the 'aggressor' because it allowed the residents of Crimea — which had been part of Russia until the Soviet dictator in 1954 had arbitrarily handed Crimea to Ukraine — to become Russian citizens again, Russians like 90% of them felt they still were, despite Khrushchev's transfer of them to Ukraine in 1954. The vast majority of Crimeans felt themselves still to be Russians. But Obama and allies of the U.S. Government insisted that the newly installed Government of Ukraine must rule those people; those people must not be permitted to rule (or be ruled) by people they've participated in choosing. Ever since at least 2011, the U.S. Government was planning to overthrow Ukraine's democratically elected Government; and the plan started being put into action by no later than 1 March 2013 inside America's Ukrainian Embassy. In preparation for this planned coup ("the most blatant coup in history"), a poll of Crimeans was funded by the International Republican Institute and USAID, in which Gallup scientifically sampled Crimeans during 16-30 May 2013, six months prior to the forced rejection on 20 November 2013 of EU membership by Ukraine's democratically elected government — that's six months prior to the Ukrainian Government's rejection that Obama's team were intending to use as being the pretext for the anti-Government demonstrations, which would start on Kiev's Maidan Square the day after this forced rejection, on November 21st. The poll of Crimeans (which was made public on 7 October 2013) found (here are highlights): p.14: "If Ukraine was able to enter only one international economic union, which entity should it be with?" 53% "Customs Union with Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan" 17% "The European Union" p.15: "How would you evaluate your attitude to the following entities?" "Russia": 68% "Warm"; 5% "Cold" "USA": 6% "Warm"; 24% "Cold" p.17: "In your opinion, what should the status of Crimea be?" "Autonomy in Ukraine (as today [under Crimea's 1992 Constitution and as subsequently celebrated by RFE/RL on 20 January 2011] )": 53%. "Common oblast of Ukraine [ruled under Ukraine's 1991 Constitution]": 2%. "Crimea should be separated and given to Russia": 23%. In other words: prior to the U.S. State Department and CIA operation to steal Ukraine's government from Ukraine's citizens — including especially from the residents of the sole autonomously governed region in Ukraine, which was Crimea — 53% of Crimeans wanted continued autonomy, 23% wanted not only a total break away from the Ukrainian Government but their becoming again citizens of Russia, such as had existed until 1954; and only 2% wanted restoration of the situation in 1991 when Crimea was briefly a "common oblast" or regular region within Ukraine, a federal state within Ukraine just like all the other states within Ukraine were. And, obviously, after America's coup in Ukraine, the percentage who wanted a total break away from Ukraine rose even higher than it had been before. Consequently, the U.S. demand that the newly imposed Ukrainian regime, which Obama's coup created, made upon Crimea subsequent to the coup, and which demand both Obama and his successor Trump insist must be imposed upon and obeyed by Crimeans if the anti-Russia sanctions are even possibly to end, is the demand that Crimeans, in that May 2013 poll, even prior to the bloody Obama coup and the takeover of Ukraine by rabidly anti-Crimean Ukrainian nazis, had supported by only 2% (it was demanding reimposition of the brief 1991 Ukrainian relationship, which Crimeans had rejected in 1991), as compared to the 53% of Crimeans who favored continuation of Crimean "autonomy," and the 23% who favored becoming Russians again. Furthermore, the May 2013 poll showed that only 17% of Crimeans favored becoming part of the EU, whereas 53% preferred to be part of the "Customs Union with Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan"; so, clearly, Crimeans, prior to the democratically elected Ukrainian Government's having declined the EU's offer, overwhelmingly wanted Ukraine's democratically elected Government to do precisely what it did — to turn down the EU's offer. During the U.S. coup, and immediately after it, until the 16 March 2014 Crimean referendum on what to do about it, Crimeans saw and heard on television and via the other Ukrainian media, reports that could only have terrified them about the new Government's intentions. Clearly the U.S. regime had no objection to placing nazis in charge, and Crimeans are intensely anti-nazi — not only anti-Nazi during Hitler's time, but against nazism, the racist-fascist ideology, itself, regardless of which group it's targeting; but, in their case, it targets Crimeans, and, more broadly, Russians. A January 2015 poll of Crimeans was financed by the U.S.-allied Canadian Government, and never made public by them but released in early February only on an obscure site of the polling organization and never reported to the public in the Western press, and this poll found (probably to the sponsors' enormous disappointment) that 93% of respondents did "endorse Russia's annexation of Crimea" and 4% did not. On 16 March 2015, the U.S. State Department issued a statement: "On this one year anniversary of the sham 'referendum' in Crimea, held in clear violation of Ukrainian law and the Ukrainian constitution, the United States reiterates its condemnation of a vote that was not voluntary, transparent, or democratic." No evidence was provided for any of that assertion, simply the allegation. Four days later, the far more honest Kenneth Rapoza at Forbes headlined "One Year After Russia Annexed Crimea," and he opened: The U.S and European Union may want to save Crimeans from themselves. But the Crimeans are happy right where they are. One year after the annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula in the Black Sea, poll after poll shows that the locals there — be they Ukrainians, ethnic Russians or Tatars are mostly all in agreement: life with Russia is better than life with Ukraine. Little has changed over the last 12 months. Despite huge efforts on the part of Kiev, Brussels, Washington and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the bulk of humanity living on the Black Sea peninsula believe the referendum to secede from Ukraine was legit. At some point, the West will have to recognize Crimea's right to self rule. The U.S. and its allies have a different idea than that. They reject Rapoza's view. The United States claims to support 'democracy'. But it demands imposition upon Crimeans of a rabidly anti-Crimean Government. What kind of 'democracy' does the United States actually support? Has the U.S. Government answered that question in Crimea — and, in Ukraine — by its actionsthere? Obama supported this kind of 'democracy', and this kind. He wanted this kind of treatment of Crimeans. Trump hasn't yet made clear whether he does, too; but his official representatives have made clear that they do. America has a militarized economy. It also currently has the very highest percentage of its people in prison out of all of the world's 222 countries and so certainly qualifies as a police state (which Americans who are lucky enough to be not amongst the lower socio-economic classes might find to be a shocking thing to assert). On top of that, everyone knows that America's military spending is by far the highest in the world, but many don't know that it's the most corrupt and so the U.S. actually spends around half of the entire world's military budget and that the U.S. 'Defense' Department is even so corrupt that it has been unauditable and thus unaudited for decades, and that many U.S. military programs are counted in other federal departments in order to hide from the public how much is actually being spent each year on the military, which is well over a trillion dollars annually, probably more than half of all federal discretionary (which excludes interest on the debt, some of which pays for prior wars) spending. So, it's a very militarized economy, indeed. This is today's American 'democracy'. Is it also 'democracy' in America's allied countries? (Obviously, they are more democratic than America regarding just the incarceration-rate; but what about generally?) Almost all of those countries continue to say that America is a democracy (despite the proof that it is not), and that they are likewise. Are they correct in both? Are they allied with a 'democracy' against democracy? Or, are they, in fact, phonies as democracies? These are serious questions, and bumper-sticker answers to them won't suffice anymore — not after invading Iraq in 2003, and Libya in 2011, and Syria right afterward, and Ukraine in 2014, and Yemen today, etc. Please send this article along to friends, and ask for their thoughts about this. Because, in any actual democracy, everyone should be discussing these issues, under the prevailing circumstances. Taxpayer-funded mass-slaughter is now routine and goes on year after year. 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Next time you're admiring a 19th century American master painting at a museum or auction house, take a closer look. What looks like an authentic creation complete with cracks and yellowing varnish could actually be the work of forger Ken Perenyi.
Perenyi made millions of dollars over 30 years with more than 1,000 forgeries, allowing him to jet set around the world. His highest earning work was a Martin Johnson Heade forgery that sold for more than $700,000.
Perenyi tells the story of how he got away with it in his new book, Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger.
So does he hold on to guilt about duping individuals, museums and galleries who paid top dollar for his work?
"No. Not at all," Perenyi tells Laura Sullivan, guest host of weekends on All Things Considered. "I take pride in my work, and I think it speaks for itself. I would find it difficult to feel bad about creating beautiful paintings."
Perenyi has imitated the likes of Charles Bird King, James Buttersworth and James Herring, and believes the artists would appreciate his work.
"I'm convinced that if they were alive today, they would truly be thankful," he says.
In Perenyi's eyes, he's paid them a compliment: "I feel that they would be greatly flattered and would be more than happy to put their signature on any one of my paintings."
Perenyi's skill is unquestionable. So why didn't he build a career of his own as an artist instead of latching on to the success of others?
"That's a good question. I would have to say that, well, part of me wishes that maybe things were a little different," he says.
In the end, however, he attributes his choices to fate.
"Every time I was trying to put my collection together, one thing or another would happen that would cause me to have my plans disrupted, and I always had to fall back on forgery to survive," he says.
The FBI eventually caught on to the forgeries in the late 1990s and began an investigation. Mysteriously, no charges were ever brought against Perenyi. He says he thinks that's because of pressure from auction houses Christie's and Sotheby's, which could have come under fire for selling his forgeries.
The investigation prompted Pereyni to adopt a safer business model. He continues to paint today, but warns buyers they are purchasing reproductions.
Perenyi remembers his former more exciting life longingly.
"I looked upon my activities as a contest of wits with world experts, and I enjoyed every moment of it," he says. "It was intoxicating."
It's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Laura Sullivan. Next time you're admiring an old master painting at a museum or auction house, take a closer look. It may not be the work of a master artist but the work of a master con artist by the name of Ken Perenyi, complete with cracks and yellowing varnish and antique frame.
Perenyi says he sold more than 1,000 forgeries over 30 years. His ability is so impressive his work has passed inspection by experts worldwide, and it's made Perenyi millions. He lays it all out in his new book "Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger." His publisher says they have vetted the book, and it's all true.
Caveat emptor is Latin for let the buyer beware, probably sage advice for today's art enthusiasts.
KEN PERENYI: I have a rather large body of work that's all out there in the world somewhere hanging in galleries and collections and maybe museums, too, hard to say. But every so often, one surfaces, one pops up in a museum or a catalogue, something I haven't seen for 20 years or so.
SULLIVAN: These are forgeries that you have painted that are hanging in museums right now or at auction houses that are being sold as paintings from famous masters.
PERENYI: Correct. They were created and sold as originals in the style of a particular artist. In the beginning, I started out with some of the old masters, the Flemish and the Dutch paintings. I eventually was introduced to the 19th century school. And that's where my career as a forger really took off, and I started making a lot more money with the American paintings.
SULLIVAN: Do you feel bad about that at all?
PERENYI: No. Not at all. I take pride in my work. And I think it speaks for itself. I would find it difficult to feel bad about creating beautiful paintings.
SULLIVAN: But there are people out there who have spent a lot of money on these paintings believing them to be something that they are not. Do you think that you've cheated them?
PERENYI: No, not at all. I think - I believe I've always made a significant contribution to the world of art. And if anyone discover that a painting they have in their collection was in fact one of my creation, they could always bring it back to the auction house and get a refund. So I don't really feel any guilt in that area. Not at all.
SULLIVAN: How do you think Charles Bird King would feel knowing that he has spent a lifetime creating a body of work that he's proud of, and that there's somebody out there pretending to be him and making money from people, unsuspecting buyers, believing that they are purchasing his work?
PERENYI: Well, that's a very good question. I've thought about that, not only Charles Bird King, but James Buttersworth and JF Herring on the British side. And I'm convinced that if they were alive today, they would truly be thankful that someone, hundreds of years after they lived, has taken so much time and has been so dedicated to master their technique and be able to carry on with their work where they left off. So I feel that they would be more than happy to put their signature on any one of my paintings.
SULLIVAN: Is it a painstaking process to reproduce one of the masters?
PERENYI: A great deal goes into it. You have to understand the type of a support, that is, the canvas, the stretcher and so on that the artist originally painted on. You have to look at the crack patterns on his original works to see forensically what you have to match. Yes, there is a great deal that goes into it. But after the initial research is scoped out, then after that, the production of these paintings could go quite easily.
SULLIVAN: You have such an extraordinary talent. Your paintings are - they're impeccable, these recreations. Why don't you just paint your own work?
PERENYI: I intended to paint abstract impressionist paintings, but it just seemed that fate or events always conspired against me. Every time I was trying to put my collection together, one thing or another would happen that would cause me to have my plans disrupted. And I always had to fall back on forgery to survive. And it finally got to the point where I gave up in exasperation of putting my collection together and had to rely on forgery as a fulltime career. And I have to say, for me, it was very rewarding. But still to this day, I still work on my abstract impressionist collection.
SULLIVAN: At the end of the day, though, would you have preferred to have been known as a great artist in your own right?
PERENYI: Oh, that's a good question. Well, part of me wishes that maybe things were a little different. But I also have to say that my life as a forger has been very exciting. I looked upon my activities as a contest of wits with world experts, and I enjoyed every moment of it. It was intoxicating. So it's really hard for me to say what I would prefer.
SULLIVAN: I'm speaking with Ken Perenyi, author of the new book "Caveat Emptor." How did you go about getting these forgeries sold?
PERENYI: When I started out, it was basically a walk-in to a gallery or an antique shop and presenting a painting that I claimed I had inherited or found in a flea market and I wanted to sell it. But as years went on, and I became more professional, in a manner of speaking, I simply walked into the auction houses with the painting and presented it to their valuations counter, as they call it. And I always allowed the experts to tell me what I had.
SULLIVAN: You spent 10 years in a sort of cat-and-mouse game with the FBI. How did you get away with this for so long?
PERENYI: I was very careful on the artist I chose to imitate. I picked up on artists that were not fabulously well known like Picasso or, you know, Monet or something like that, artists that have been forged many times before. I was interested in painters that were coming up in the art world that were accelerating in price and becoming more and more known by the collecting public.
So I stayed under the radar by targeting these very fine artists, understanding their ability. And also, it was an area that experts would not expect fakes to show up in.
SULLIVAN: And right now, are you in any risk of being indicted?
PERENYI: No. I believe that risk is long over. The statute of limitations and the case went inactive in 2003.
SULLIVAN: You're still painting today.
PERENYI: Oh, yes.
SULLIVAN: What are you painting?
PERENYI: I spend my time always on a new collection of fakes, and I'm always perfecting them. I love exploring new areas.
SULLIVAN: But these are fakes that you're selling as fakes.
PERENYI: Indeed, yes. And I'm always developing my abstract impressionist collection. So I'm - I paint every day, and I find it just as thrilling now, as I did years ago.
SULLIVAN: That's Ken Perenyi, the author of the new book "Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger." Thanks so much for joining us, Ken.
PERENYI: Thank you. It's been a pleasure. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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You may have heard of this guy, he's pretty good. However, attempting to predict what Kobe might be thinking or which way he might be leaning 11 months from now is an exercise in futility. A year ago at this time, after all the public posturing and trade demands, most everyone assumed Kobe would choose to bolt once he had the opportunity to leave LA freely, but now he is coming off his first MVP award and a (albeit disappointing) trip to the NBA Finals. With a huge, potentially dominating frontline of Lamar Odom, Pau Gasol, and Andrew Bynum, the future seems very promising in La La Land. Thus, you have to believe Kobe would be content finishing his career in LA, but as we have learned with Kobe, nothing can be taken for granted. There will be some added pressure on the rest of his teammates and the organization as a whole to build off and improve upon the success they experienced last season. If the Lakers were to take a step backwards in '08-'09, things could get dramatic in Hollywood. The most likely scenario is him opting out of his current contract and, and after some harmless flirting with Chicago and a few other teams, eventually agreeing to another long-term max-money contract with the Lakers. Either way, it should be interesting to see this drama unfold. As we saw with Baron Davis and Elton Brand last month, shocking decisions can be made in the 11th hour.